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one mufl: be built likewife of turf againfl the old 

 wall before it is quite confumed, which will keep 

 the heap together, and by often pulling it down pre- 

 vents its burning too faft. A heap of fixty or fe- 

 venty feet in circumference will keep two or three 

 carts employed to fetch turf and clay, and will burn 

 five hundred loads of aflies in a week. The fire 

 mufl be watched conflantly, at all times, late in _the 

 evening and early in the morning; and one Sunday 

 in a year we generally have our good paftor's leave 

 to fpend unholily, in preventing the fires from burn- 

 ing too quick, which, for example's fake, he has often 

 thought proper to fanftion with his own hands.— 

 Sometimes the fires burn fo faft that five or fix men 

 are wanted continually to throw up clay to moderate 

 its heat, and prevent its burning through. 



Dry fummers are the moft convenient for this 

 work ; wet feafons only delaying it, as large fires, 

 after two or three days burning, are never put out 

 by rain, and the aflies are more carbonaceous and 

 fenilizing the Qower they are burnt. The ant-hills, 

 if there be any on the land, fhould alfo be cut clean 

 up (not thrown) and burnt with the clay, out of the 

 trenches, ditches, pool-banks, and other offenfive 

 matter which moft fields are incumbered with, and 

 which generally affords a calcareous drefTmg for the 

 fame land of forty or fifty large put-Ioads per acre; 

 and, as it were, free of coft; as the coft of draining, 



jrubbing. 



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